Welcome to the the POLS 373 CoursePage (WINTER 2007)! This pages contains links (see below) to the course syllabus, lecture notes and materials, supplemental and recommended readings, links to useful resources on the web, and other class-related information (including grades, assignments, and "model papers"). You should refer to this page first whenever you have questions about our class. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact me.



[From course syllabus] The primary aim of this is class is to make you a "good comparativist" – i.e., someone who is able to use various intellectual or conceptual tools in the field of comparative politics to better analyze, understand and/or explain significant events and processes in various countries and societies throughout the world. These significant or "big" events and processes include democratization, state-building, ethnic and/or domestic conflict (including "terrorism"), national poverty and capitalist development.




Finding course information is easy. Just use the links below to go where you want to go. Be advised, however, that some links may not be active and some pages may seem incomplete. For obvious reasons, this is more likely to happen in the beginning of the quarter, but there are times when I will not be able to update my CourseSite on a regular basis.










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